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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Rin and his exorcist classmates are caught in a secret war against
the forces of darkness. Raised by Father Fujimoto, a famous
exorcist, Rin Okumura never knew his real father. One day a fateful
argument with Father Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible
truth—the blood of the demon lord Satan runs in Rin’s veins!
Rin swears to defeat Satan, but doing that means entering the
mysterious True Cross Academy and becoming an exorcist himself.
When Shiemi confronts her old nemesis Amaimon, the demon king of
earth doesn’t understand just how powerful Shiemi has become. But
for Shiemi to achieve her destiny, she also needs to realize her
own strength! Back in Assiah, Satan and his minions square off
against Mephisto and the Knights of the True Cross to determine the
fate of the world. After receiving some enchanted power-ups, the
Exwires prepare to enact their battle plan. Rin himself is part of
the vanguard that aims to engage the enemy head-on. The time has
come for Rin to fulfill his promise to defeat Satan, the King of
Demons!
This book contains several Japanese tales collected and translated
into English by N. Kato. It is beautifully illustrated with several
vibrant coloured plates and many black and white line drawings by
H. G. Theaker. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly
those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce
and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish
these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions,
using the original text and artwork so these works can delight
another generation of children.
Rin and his exorcist classmates are caught in a secret war against
the forces of darkness. Raised by Father Fujimoto, a famous
exorcist, Rin Okumura never knew his real father. One day a fateful
argument with Father Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible
truth-the blood of the demon lord Satan runs in Rin's veins! Rin
swears to defeat Satan, but doing that means entering the
mysterious True Cross Academy and becoming an exorcist himself. Now
back in the present, and with the terrible, tragic knowledge of the
truth of his and his brother's birth, Rin confronts Yukio aboard
the stricken Illuminati airship, Dominus Liminis. As the brothers
face off, Satan does his best to drive them both further into his
grip. Rin wants to bring Yukio back into the fold of the Knights of
the True Cross, but Yukio is firm in his desire to force Rin to
kill him. With the airship going down in flames, the battle for
Yukio's soul begins...
This book presents the most recent description of rubber
reinforcement, focusing on the network-like structure formation of
nanofiller in the rubber matrix under the presence of bound rubber.
The resultant filler network is visualized by electron tomography
applied to rubber. In the case of natural rubber, the
self-reinforcement effect is uniquely functioning, and new template
crystallization is suggested. Here, the crystallites are also
believed to arrange themselves in a network-like manner. These
results are of great use, particularly for engineers, in designing
rubber reinforcement.
Rin and his exorcist classmates are caught in a secret war against
the forces of darkness. Raised by Father Fujimoto, a famous
exorcist, Rin Okumura never knew his real father. One day a fateful
argument with Father Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible
truth-the blood of the demon lord Satan runs in Rin's veins! Rin
swears to defeat Satan, but doing that means entering the
mysterious True Cross Academy and becoming an exorcist himself. As
his vision of the past draws to a close, an older Rin bears witness
to the tragic climax of the Blue Night. He watches as Satan's
cloned body can no longer contain the massive cosmic energies
within him. The Knights of the True Cross are faced with an
unprecedented crisis as a wave of destruction begins to sweep
across the world. Although just a newborn, Rin is hugely powerful
and his demon heart scourges the Knights of the True Cross with its
fire. The blue flames continue to spread, and no one will be spared
their heat...
Based on historic and ethnographic approaches, this volume examines
how the ideological images of Asian women are produced, circulated,
appropriated, and pluralized. Contributors analyze the interactions
between the politicized formation of ideological representations
and the everyday practices of women who resist and re-contextualize
these images.
The majority of the world's population live in environments with
artificially weakened wind as buildings in urban areas form
wind-breaks and reduce wind speeds. Anthropogenic heat is also
generated and during the summer dense urban areas suffer from the
urban heat island effect, a known urban climate problem. This book
discusses how to evaluate the urban wind environment, including
ventilation performance and thermal comfort. This book is organized
in two parts; Wind Environment and the Urban Environment and
Criteria for Assessing Breeze Environments. It includes chapters on
sea breeze in urban areas; thermal adaptation and the effect of
wind on thermal comfort; health risk of exposures; pollutant
transport in dense urban areas; legal regulations for urban
ventilation and new criteria for assessing the local wind
environment. Keywords: urban wind environments, urban heat island,
urban climate, land use change, thermal comfort, risk assessment,
urban air pollution, urban ventilation
Biomechanics studies of animals in swimming and flying can serve
an increasing role in understanding the mechanisms that enable
animals to move effectively and efficiently in fluid, as well as
analyzing the characteristics of their various forms of behavior in
fluid. The rich variety of mechanisms employed by swimming and
flying organisms has long been an inspiration for engineers and
scientists. These areas of research, which form the basis of this
volume, include the locomotive mechanisms and behaviors of animals
in swimming and flying ranging from microorganisms to dolphins from
the biological aspect, hydrodynamics of swimming and flying,
biomimetic swimming or flying robots, and sports science. This book
follows "Bio-mechanisms of Animals in Swimming and Flying"
published in 2004 including 11 chapters. This time, the book
includes 31 chapters on the latest researches into natural
autonomous systems and locomotion in both flying and swimming
organisms. The area of sports science such as analysis and
simulation of human swimming is newly added. The computational
frameworks for the modeling, simulation and optimization of animals
in swimming and flying demonstrate an important role in the
progress of interdisciplinary work in the fields of biology and
engineering. An innovative technology is exhibited for the flight
of an insect size micro air vehicle. Neuronal science is not only
unveiling the locomotion mechanisms of swimming in fish from the
aspect of the neuronal activities, but also applied to underwater
biomimetic robots. The interdisciplinary works are exhibited in the
fields of biology and engineering, yielding real-world benefits in
innovative technologies.
I.M. Saez, J.W. Goodby: Supermolecular Liquid Crystals.- J.-H. Ryu,
M. Lee: Liquid Crystalline Assembly of Rod-coil Molecules.- H.
Kikuchi: Liquid Crystalline Blue Phases: - S.J. Rowan, P.T. Mather:
Supramolecular Interactions in the Formation of Thermotropic Liquid
Crystalline Polymers.- M. Funahashi, H. Shimura, M. Yoshio, T.
Kato: Functional Liquid Crystalline Polymers for Ionic and
Electronic Conduction.- D.L. Gin, C.S. Pecinovsky, J.E. Bara, R.L.
Kerr: Functional Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Materials
Nearly all philosophers refer to Kant when debating the concept of
dignity, and many approve of Kant's conception, unaware of the
tensions between Kant's conception and the modern idea of dignity
intimately connected to the idea of human rights. What exactly is
Kant's conception of dignity? Is there a connecting tie between
dignity and the legal sphere of human rights at all? Does Kant's
concept refer to a superior status human beings seem to own in
comparison to non-rational beings? Or does it refer to an absolute
value? The contributions of this volume are organised in five
broader topics. In the first section tensions within the Kantian
conception of dignity are discussed (C. Horn, D. Birnbacher, G.
Schoenrich). The second group of articles illuminates the intimate
connections between dignity and human rights (R. Mosayebi, M.
Kettner). The third group discusses the prevailing moral conception
of dignity (S. Yamatsuta, S. Shell, O. Sensen). The fourth group
focuses on the relation of dignity and end in itself (T. Hill, D.
Sturma, A. Wood). The central theme of the fifth group of
contributions are the social, political, and cultural dimensions of
dignity (Y. Kato, K. Ameriks, K. Flikschuh, T. Saito).
Once the world's largest ODA provider, contemporary Japan seems
much less visible in international development. However, this book
demonstrates that Japan, with its own aid philosophy, experiences,
and models of aid, has ample lessons to offer to the international
community as the latter seeks new paradigms of development
cooperation.
This book breaks new ground by offering neuroscientific insights
into post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD has emerged as the
model mental disorder for studying the effect of the environment on
human biological systems, especially the brain. The authors - who
range from skilled basic scientists to experienced diagnosticians
and therapists - are leaders in the recent surge of biological
investigation into this distressing and disabling condition.
Rin and his exorcist classmates are caught in a secret war against
the forces of darkness. Raised by Father Fujimoto, a famous
exorcist, Rin Okumura never knew his real father. One day a fateful
argument with Father Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible
truth-the blood of the demon lord Satan runs in Rin's veins! Rin
swears to defeat Satan, but doing that means entering the
mysterious True Cross Academy and becoming an exorcist himself.
Surrounded by the fiery wreckage of the Illuminati airship, Rin
struggles to control his demonic alter ego before it consumes both
himself and Yukio. The brothers are torn by a mutual
misunderstanding of each other that can only be reconciled with an
all-out fight that has been a long time coming. Later, all the
Exwires except Shiemi are reunited and try to come to terms with
what has happened. But the battle with Satan is far from over.
Elsewhere, Shiemi will face an opponent who will test her newfound
resolve...
This book explores “self-searching migrants”, a new group of
indefinitely globally mobile people whose purpose of overseas stay
is the search of true self and the work they really want to do,
using Japanese trans-Pacific sojourners as the case study.
Utilizing testimonies collected from interviews with Japanese
migrants in their twenties to forties who had entered the job
market between the early 1990s and 2010 and left for the
English-speaking countries of Canada, Australia and Singapore, the
book argues that their practices are both ubiquitous and unique,
the products of global and local contexts of a specific time. As
semi-skilled migrants from an extra-Western, post-industrial
country, their struggles show a different picture of the
West-centric world power system from those experienced by migrant
workers from the Global South. Including extensive qualitative
research and interview material collected over a 20-year period,
this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of
Japanese Culture and Society, Cultural Anthropology and Migration.
This book is the Proceedings of the First International Symposium
for Science on Form. The Symposium was held on November 26 through
30, 1985 at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. It was organized by
The Society for Science on Form, J::.!pan, and sponsored by the
Foundation for Advancement of International Science (F AIS). The
purpose of the Symposium was to discuss interdisciplinal science
aspects of form. "Form", to exhibit its tremendous characters,
depends on the material and the changes. But, it is the form that
appears evident at once and endures. Form is absorbed from every
field as media of information. Thirty years and more ago,
interdisciplinal problems between earthethics and science were
submitted to a symposium on Form in Nature and Art. The relation
between form and function had been emphasized philosophically and
psychologically. In this quarter century, information theory had
exactly decided figures, electronic computer had easily calculated
graphics, and laser hologram had completely contained the objective
image and reconstructed it.
The World Health Organization's concept of health as "the condition
of psychophysical and social well-being" must be translated into
opera tional terms. The objective is to place the human person
within the social system, given that mental health, mental illness,
and suffering are individual, despite the fact that their causes
are to be sought in the society and environment that surround and
interact with the indi vidual. One dimension that must be
emphasized in this field is the contin uum that exists between
social environment and cerebral development. This continuum
consists of the physical and biological features of the two
interacting systems: on one hand, the brain managed and con trolled
by the genetic program, and, on the other hand, the environ ment,
be it natural or social. A simple dichotomy of individual and
environment is no longer a sufficient concept in understanding the
etiology of mental health and illness. Needless to say,
socioepidemiological research in psychiatry and transcultural
psychiatry is useful in reaching these ends. However, at the root
of mental illness, one can always find the same causal elements:
informational chaos, inadequate dietary intake, substance abuse,
trauma, conditioning, and so on, which make the interactive systems
dysfunctional. Subsequent organic and psychotic disorders occur to
the detriment of both the individual and society. Current
biological psychiatry is inadequately equipped in treating mental
illness."
Fight Hellfire with Hellfire
Reads R to L (Japanese Style for teen plus audiences.
Raised by Father Fujimoto, a famous exorcist, Rin Okumura never
knew his real father. One day a fateful argument with Father
Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible truth--the blood of the
demon lord Satan runs in Rin's veins Rin swears to defeat Satan,
but doing that means entering the mysterious True Cross Academy and
becoming an exorcist himself. Can Rin fight demons and keep his
infernal bloodline a secret? It won't be easy, especially when
drawing his father's sword releases the demonic power within him
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